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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

My Journey to the Cloud - a slight chance for a big jump

OpenStack
has 2 summits each year where developers, users and administrator gather
together to share their knowledge, experience, concerns or ideas about OpenStack.

Usually
the first summit is held around the April or May time frame in North America
and the second summit is held around October or November time frame. Starting
2013 the second summit is held in other parts of the world such as Hong Kong and
Paris.

In
2015, the first OpenStack summit will be in Vancouver Canada from May 18 to May
22.

One thing
unique about OpenStack summit is that the OpenStack community can vote for what
is being presented in the summit.While
a lot of other technical conferences have the Call for Paper in which everyone
can submit their speaking proposal, the sessions are selected by a committee.

I have
wanted to attend an OpenStack Summit for a long time.I believe this is a good chance for me to get
more knowledge as well as to meet different people in this OpenStack
community.Last year when I participated
in the Virtual Design Master, it taught me the value of a community.

On my
journey to the cloud, I am on my own.My
company will not send me to any conference.Last year I have written 20 blogs on OpenStack and I though this will be
good if I can translate what I have written into a presentation. Speaker at the OpenStack Summit got a full
conference pass for free.

Well,
here I am, I have submitted a proposal to present at the OpenStack Summit and
the topic is “What a Beginner should know about OpenStack”

I
believe my presentation will be beneficial to those who are new to
OpenStack.I have learned that there are
a lots of attendees to OpenStack summit are beginners.

If I
can attend the OpenStack Summit, for sure I will write about my experience and
share in this blog what I learned during that intense and exciting week in
Vancouver.

This
coming OpenStack Summit has the following tracks:

Enterprise
IT Strategies
Enterprise IT leaders building their cloud business case are facing unique
requirements to manage legacy applications, new software development and shadow
IT within industry regulations and business constraints. In this track, we'll
discuss how OpenStack is meeting enterprise IT technical requirements and cover
topics relevant to planning your cloud strategy, including culture change, cost
management, vendor strategy and recruiting.

Telco
Strategies
Telecommunications companies are one of the largest areas of growth for
OpenStack around the world. In this track, we'll feature content relevant to
these users, addressing the evolution of the network and emerging NFV
architecture, the global IaaS market and role of telcos, industry regulation
and data sovereignty, and industry cooperation around interoperability and
federation.

How
to Contribute
The How to Contribute track is for new community members and companies
interested in contributing to the open source code, with a focus on OpenStack
community processes, tools, culture and best practices.

Planning
Your OpenStack Project
If you are new to OpenStack or just getting started planning your cloud
strategy, this track will cover the basics for you to evaluate the technology,
understand the different ways to consume OpenStack, review popular use cases
and determine your path forward.

Products,
Tools & Services
OpenStack's vibrant ecosystem and the different ways to consume it are among
it's greatest strengths. In this track, you'll hear about the latest products,
tools and services from the OpenStack ecosystem.

User
Stories
Sharing knowledge is a core value for the OpenStack community. In the user
stories track, you'll hear directly from enterprises, service providers and
application developers who are using OpenStack to address their business
problems. Learn best practices, challenges and recommendations directly from
your industry peers.

Community
Building
OpenStack is a large, diverse community with more than 75 user groups around
the world. In the community building track, user group leaders will share their
experiences growing and maturing their local groups, community leaders will
discuss new tools and metrics, and we'll shine a spotlight on end user and
contributing organizations who have experienced a significant internal culture
change as participants of the OpenStack community.

Related
OSS Projects
There is a rich ecosystem of open source projects that sit on top of, plug into
or support the OpenStack cloud software. In this track, we'll demonstrate the
capabilities and preview the roadmaps for open source projects relevant to
OpenStack. This presentation track is separate from the open source project
working sessions, which allow the contributors to those projects to gather and
discuss features and requirements relevant to their integration with OpenStack.
A separate application for those working sessions will be announced.

Operations
The Operations track is 100% focused on what it takes to run a production
OpenStack cloud. Every presenter has put endless coffee-fueled hours into
making services scale robustly, never go down, and automating, automating,
automating. The track will cover efficient use of existing tools, managing
upgrades and staying up-to-date with one of the world's fastest-moving code
bases and "Architecture show and tell," where established clouds will
lead a discussion around their architecture. If you're already running a cloud,
you should also join us in the Ops Summit for some serious working sessions (no
basic intros here) on making the OpenStack software and ops tools for it
better.

Compute
Computing is a broad topic, but this track will offer technical presentations,
use cases, and design and implementation specific to the OpenStack Compute
project. Topics will include new features, integration with tools and
technologies and configuration as well as hypervisors, HA, schedulers, bare
metal computing and databases.

Public
& hybrid clouds
The public and hybrid clouds track will cover issues and considerations unique
to organizations who are making use of public or hybrid cloud infrastructure,
or are considering this approach.

Targeting
Apps for OpenStack Clouds
A large community of application developers and ecosystem of development tools
is growing around OpenStack. This track will be for users who are building and
deploying applications on OpenStack clouds, and cover topics like automating
and managing application deployment, application software configuration, SDKs,
tools, PaaS and big data.

Cloudfunding:
Startups and Capital
This track will discuss where investors are seeing the most opportunity to fund
new startups as OpenStack growth continues in new markets around the globe. The
track will also cover how to source and ask for funding if you have the next
hot OpenStack-related startup idea.